• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.347-370
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• 2019

In the computer-aided detection (CAD) system of pulmonary nodules, a high false positive rate is common because the density and the computed tomography (CT) values of the vessel and the nodule in the CT images are similar, which affects the detection accuracy of pulmonary nodules. In this paper, a method of automatic detection of pulmonary nodules based on multi-scale enhancement filters and 3D shape features is proposed. The method uses an iterative threshold and a region growing algorithm to segment lung parenchyma. Two types of multi-scale enhancement filters are constructed to enhance the images of nodules and blood vessels in 3D lung images, and most of the blood vessel images in the nodular images are removed to obtain a suspected nodule image. An 18 neighborhood region growing algorithm is then used to extract the lung nodules. A new pulmonary nodules feature descriptor is proposed, and the features of the suspected nodules are extracted. A support vector machine (SVM) classifier is used to classify the pulmonary nodules. The experimental results show that our method can effectively detect pulmonary nodules and reduce false positive rates, and the feature descriptor proposed in this paper is valid which can be used to distinguish between nodules and blood vessels.

• 정보처리학회논문지D
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• 제12D권6호
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• pp.837-848
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• 2005

다중축척 공간데이터베이스란 동일한 현실 공간을 여러 축척으로 저장한 것으로, 기존에 구축된 원시 공간 데이터베이스로부터 유도될 수 있다. 이 유도과정에서 원시 데이터베이스에 있던 기하 및 위상관계는 변형이 되고, 이 관계 변형은 유도된 데이터베이스의 무결성을 보장하지 못하는 원인이 되므로, 유도과정이 수행된 후에는 반드시 유도된 데이터베이스와 원시 데이터베이스의 관계 일관성을 조사해야한다. 이 논문에서는 원시 데이터베이스와 유도된 다중축척 데이터베이스간의 위상 관계 일관성을 평가하는 방법을 제시하겠다. 특히, 2차원 공간객체가 1차원으로 축소되었을 때 위상관계의 일관성을 평가하는 방법을 제한할 것이며, 이 평가 방법들의 구현에 대해서 기술하고, 사례를 이용하여 구현결과를 기술하겠다.

• Journal of Semiconductor Engineering
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.57-63
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• 2020

Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology is now facing a power scaling limit to increase integration density. Since 1970s, multi-valued logic (MVL) has been considered as promising alternative to resolve power scaling challenge for increasing information density up to peta-scale level by reducing the system complexity. Over the past several decades, however, a power-scalable and mass-producible MVL technology has been absent so that MVL circuit and system implementation have been delayed. Recently, compact MVL device researches incorporating multiple-switching characteristics in a single device such as 2D heterojunction-based negative-differential resistance (NDR)/transconductance (NDT) devices and quantum-dot/superlattices-based constant intermediate current have been actively performed. Meanwhile, wafer-scale, energy-efficient and variation-tolerant ternary-CMOS (T-CMOS) technology has been demonstrated through commercial foundry. In this review paper, an overview for MVL development history including recent studies will be presented. Then, the status and its future research direction of MVL technology will be discussed focusing on the T-CMOS technology for peta-scale information processing in semiconductor chip.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.400-407
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 다양한 조도의 영향에도 본질적인 특성이 변하지 않는 고유영상을 이용한 그림자 검출과 멀티 스케일 감마 보정 기반의 그림자 복원 방법을 제안하였다. 그림자 검출은 컬러 영상의 그레이스케일 영상과 고유영상 간의 화소 변화 정보를 이용하여 추정하였으며, 그림자 복원 과정에서는 감마 보정을 통해 영상의 밝기를 조절하는 방법을 적용하였다. 감마 보정은 개별적 화소값에 대한 비선형 조정으로 채도가 변경될 수 있으므로 컬러 영상의 채널별로 수행되는 멀티 스케일 감마 보정을 수행한다. 멀티 스케일 감마 값은 컬러 영상에서 그림자와 그림자가 아닌 영역의 교차 윤곽을 획득한 후 이 정보를 기반으로 추정되며, 결과적으로 서로 다른 유형의 영역 특징을 멀티 스케일 감마 값으로 보정하여 그림자를 복원하였다. 실험 결과, 제안하는 방법이 그림자가 포함된 단일 자연 영상에서 그림자를 효과적으로 복원함을 보였다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.1083-1094
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• 2020

Recognizing plant species based on leaf images is challenging because of the large inter-class variation and inter-class similarities among different plant species. The effective extraction of leaf descriptors constitutes the most important problem in plant leaf recognition. In this paper, a multi-scale angular description method is proposed for fast and accurate leaf recognition and retrieval tasks. The proposed method uses a novel scale-generation rule to develop an angular description of leaf contours. It is parameter-free and can capture leaf features from coarse to fine at multiple scales. A fast Fourier transform is used to make the descriptor compact and is effective in matching samples. Both support vector machine and k-nearest neighbors are used to classify leaves. Leaf recognition and retrieval experiments were conducted on three challenging datasets, namely Swedish leaf, Flavia leaf, and ImageCLEF2012 leaf. The results are evaluated with the widely used standard metrics and compared with several state-of-the-art methods. The results and comparisons show that the proposed method not only requires a low computational time, but also achieves good recognition and retrieval accuracies on challenging datasets.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제18권7호
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• pp.1706-1725
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• 2024

The unique U-shaped structure of U-Net network makes it achieve good performance in image segmentation. This network is a lightweight network with a small number of parameters for small image segmentation datasets. However, when the medical image to be segmented contains a lot of detailed information, the segmentation results cannot fully meet the actual requirements. In order to achieve higher accuracy of medical image segmentation, a novel improved U-Net network architecture called multi-scale encoder-decoder U-Net+ (MEDU-Net+) is proposed in this paper. We design the GoogLeNet for achieving more information at the encoder of the proposed MEDU-Net+, and present the multi-scale feature extraction for fusing semantic information of different scales in the encoder and decoder. Meanwhile, we also introduce the layer-by-layer skip connection to connect the information of each layer, so that there is no need to encode the last layer and return the information. The proposed MEDU-Net+ divides the unknown depth network into each part of deconvolution layer to replace the direct connection of the encoder and decoder in U-Net. In addition, a new combined loss function is proposed to extract more edge information by combining the advantages of the generalized dice and the focal loss functions. Finally, we validate our proposed MEDU-Net+ MEDU-Net+ and other classic medical image segmentation networks on three medical image datasets. The experimental results show that our proposed MEDU-Net+ has prominent superior performance compared with other medical image segmentation networks.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2011년도 한국컴퓨터종합학술대회논문집 Vol.38 No.1(C)
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• pp.417-420
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• 2011

로봇이 능동적으로 행동하기 위해서는 외부 신호를 받아서 처리해야 되는데 여러 가지 센서 중에서도 영상처리가 중요해지고 있다. 하지만 영상처리를 사용하였을 경우는 예측할 수 없는 외부환경으로부터 영향을 받을 수 있다. 예를 들면 조명이 일정한 내부 환경에서는 인식이 가능하나 외부환경에서는 불가능한 경우가 있다. 그러므로 로봇산업이 발전에 중요한 축을 담당하고 있는 영상처리에 분야 중에서 논문에서는 조명이 변하는 상황을 설정해보고 그 상황을 토대로 기존의 알고리즘인 [2][3] Single-scale Retinex. [4][5] Multi-scale Retinex와 인식률을 비교해보고 Single-scale Retinex을 기반으로 단순히 Multi- scale Retinex처럼 가중치를 같이 두는 것이 아니라 상황에 따라 가중치를 다르게 주는 알고리즘 'Adaptive Two Scale Relinex Algorilhm'을 소개하겠다. 더불어 앞으로 나아가야 될 방향에 대해서도 언급하겠다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권10호
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• pp.3729-3749
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• 2021

At present, deep convolution network-based salient object detection (SOD) has achieved impressive performance. However, it is still a challenging problem to make full use of the multi-scale information of the extracted features and which appropriate feature fusion method is adopted to process feature mapping. In this paper, we propose a new adjacency auxiliary network (AANet) based on multi-scale feature fusion for SOD. Firstly, we design the parallel connection feature enhancement module (PFEM) for each layer of feature extraction, which improves the feature density by connecting different dilated convolution branches in parallel, and add channel attention flow to fully extract the context information of features. Then the adjacent layer features with close degree of abstraction but different characteristic properties are fused through the adjacent auxiliary module (AAM) to eliminate the ambiguity and noise of the features. Besides, in order to refine the features effectively to get more accurate object boundaries, we design adjacency decoder (AAM_D) based on adjacency auxiliary module (AAM), which concatenates the features of adjacent layers, extracts their spatial attention, and then combines them with the output of AAM. The outputs of AAM_D features with semantic information and spatial detail obtained from each feature are used as salient prediction maps for multi-level feature joint supervising. Experiment results on six benchmark SOD datasets demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms similar previous methods.

• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.20-27
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• 1987

The hierarchical approach method is proposed to sperate each different time scale sub-systems from linear time invariant multi-parameter singular perturbation systems. By means of this proposal, the original multi-parameter singular perturbation systems is completely separated into independent subsystems with each different time scale. It is also investigated that the controllability of the system is invariant. And this paper applies singular perturbation methods to the minimum control effort problem for linear time invariant systems with constrained controls. Also near-optimum control theory, which is based on dividing the total time interval with the time scales respectively, is proposed. As a result, the time scale separation method is show to be particularly useful in a near optimum design which can be otained through a decentralized control structure.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2001년도 봄 학술발표논문집 Vol.28 No.1 (B)
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• pp.1-3
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• 2001

점차 지리정보시스템(GIS; Geographic Information System)에서 표현의 다양화가 요구되어지며 특히 위성영상의 데이터는 거대하기 때문에, 지라공간의 자세한 연구를 원하는 사용자에게 많은 처리시간과 고가의 비용이 요구된다. 바면 웹에서 성능향상을 위해 공간데이터의 양을 줄인다 보면 공간데이터를 다양하게 표현하지 못하는 경우가 발생하게 된다. 그러므로 본 논문에서는 사용자의 공간데이터에 대한 양적 부담을 줄이고 공간데이터의 정확도를 유지할 수 있는 Multi-Scale에 따른 Multi-Resolution(MS-MR) 기법을 제안하고자 한다. 즉, 서버에서 축척의 정량화를 통해 레이어가 추가될 지점과 다중 해상도의 구간을 정하여 맵을 점차 확대함에 따라 다중해상도의 레스터맵이 클라언트에게 점진적으로 전송된다. 이는 인터넷 연결상태와 GIS 사용목적에 따라 적절한 다중 해상도의 레스터맵을 제공하게 되며, 사용자가 진화적으로 시스템 추구로 빠른 정보습득과 의사결정을 돕는 효과를 기대할 수 있게 한다.